{"id":34895,"date":"2013-11-29T15:26:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34895"},"modified":"2021-11-23T02:25:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T02:25:51","slug":"book-review-the-black-irish-onscreen-representing-black-and-mixed-race-identities-on-irish-film-and-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34895","title":{"rendered":"Book review: The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book review: The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Film Ireland<\/a>
\nTemple Bar, Dublin, Ireland
\n2013-11-19<\/p>\n

Sarah Griffin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Z\u00e9lie Asava, The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television<\/a><\/em> (Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2013)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sarah Griffin welcomes Z\u00e9lie Asava\u2018s book that applies divergent theoretical concepts of Irishness, whiteness, gender and the particular place of the \u2018other\u2019 to the \u2018conceptual whiteness of Irishness itself\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n

While the intricacies of white and non-white filmic representation has been a subject of much study, most particularly in relation to Hollywood\u2019s output, there has been less focused investigation into the particular relationship Ireland has to its own \u2018whiteness\u2019 and how that translates on our big and little screens.\u00a0 Z\u00e9lie Asava<\/a> does so here, bringing together theorists and researchers from disparate decades and tying their ideas to a particularly Irish situation\u2014a country that has only begun to integrate the multicultural nature of a relatively recently expanded populace.\u00a0 From Sigmund Freud\u2019s<\/a> \u2018return of the repressed<\/a>\u2019, Julie Kristeva\u2019s<\/a> abjection<\/a>, Richard Dyer\u2019s<\/a> seminal contributions to the study of whiteness, and Judith Butler\u2019s<\/a> performativity<\/a>, to the more recent work of Diane Negra<\/a> on \u2018off-white Hollywood\u2019 and a compendium of Irish contributors, Asava blends theorists and personal experience (as an Irish\/Kenyan actor) to position herself at the front line.\u00a0 This book provides a welcome opportunity to apply divergent theoretical concepts of Irishness, whiteness, gender and the particular place of the \u2018other\u2019 to, as she calls it, \u201cthe conceptual whiteness of Irishness itself\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Book review: The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television Film Ireland Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland 2013-11-19 Sarah Griffin Z\u00e9lie Asava, The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television (Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2013) Sarah […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8413,28,8],"tags":[16468,246,16467,245],"class_list":["post-34895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-communications","category-europe","category-media-archive","tag-film-ireland","tag-ireland","tag-sarah-griffin","tag-zelie-asava"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62354,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34895\/revisions\/62354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}